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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom are the drawings presented?
(a) The townspeople.
(b) The Chapter.
(c) The king.
(d) The Bishop and the Chapter.

2. Most importantly, the stone cutters work inside ___________.
(a) Designing the stone tracery, capitals, and sculptures.
(b) Polishing the stone tracery, capitals, and sculptures.
(c) Adding mortar the the stone.
(d) Dressing stone and cutting tracery, capitals, and sculptures.

3. Why did William of Planz design buttresses around the cathedral's outside walls?
(a) To balance out the large windows.
(b) To cover up seams in the walls.
(c) For aesthetic purposes.
(d) To support the walls from buckling outward.

4. Where are most of these skilled workers drawn from?
(a) Other countries.
(b) Neighboring kingdoms.
(c) The citizenry of Chutreaux.
(d) Around the world.

5. The master quarryman supervises about ____________ men cutting limestone.
(a) Thirty thousand.
(b) Three hundred.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Three thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else is done to this location?

2. The flying buttresses work by transferring downward forces from the walls to ___________.

3. Workmen reach the scaffolding by using ______________ built into the walls of the cathedral.

4. Once the design has been approved the master carpenter takes about ___________ men into the forest of Chantilly and cuts timber.

5. Finally, the new foundation for the apse and choir is _______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is done with the cut limestone?

2. Why must many houses be demolished?

3. How do the flying buttresses work?

4. What first takes place in the spring of 1253?

5. What happens once the site is cleared?

6. What takes place once the foundation is completed?

7. Where is the roof located? Of what does it consist?

8. Describe the three phases of the construction of the walls of the choir.

9. What does the floor plan show?

10. Describe the buttresses and how they function.

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